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Do You Do For Zoomin and Ramacin Ranger Tie For Top Mark in Mile High Derby Trials
Do You Do For Zoomin (#3), under jockey Valente Vorrath, tied for the fastest qualifying time in Thursday's $75,000-est. Mile High Derby trials..

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Do You Do For Zoomin and Ramacin Ranger Tie For Top Mark in Mile High Derby Trials

AURORA, CO—SEPTEMBER 16, 2021—Do You Do For Zoomin won the opening trial and Ramacin Ranger won the second of three trials today (Thursday), tying for the fastest qualifying time of :20.092 seconds for the $75,000-est. Mile High Derby at Arapahoe Park.

The 10 fastest qualifiers, from three trial races, will return to the Colorado racetrack on Saturday, October 2nd to vie for the winner's share of the purse going 400 yards.

Do You Do For Zoomin, under jockey Valente Vorrath, picked up her second consecutive win at Arapahoe Park by defeating Indeed by a neck in the first trial. Her time equaled a 91 speed index with 5 mph tailwind. Trainer Jose Chavez conditions the daughter of champion sire Zoomin For Bux for owner Jose Castaneda.

Ramacin Ranger (#5), under jockey Ramiro Garica, tied for the fastest qualifying time in Thursday's Mile High Derby trials at Arapahoe Park. © Coady Photography
Do You Do For Zoomin has stepped up in class in her last three starts after running for a $10,000 tag at Sunray Park in May. Armando Arreola and Kent Jameson bred the $14,975 earner in New Mexico from the One Sweet Jess mare Do You Do Jess.

Ramacin Ranger bumped at the start under jockey Ramiro Garcia but managed a half-length win over Chicks Tale All in the second trial to tie for fastest time, also a 91 speed but with no wind. Hipolito Michel-Valverde is the owner-trainer of the Oklahoma-bred son of the #5 second-crop sire EC Jet One.

It was the first win in nine starts for the bay gelding who was a finalist in the Mile High Futurity and the Rocky Mountain Futurity last year. Bollenbach Farms LP bred the $11,015 earner from the Hot As Hell mare Hot As Diamonds.

Both the aforementioned Indeed and Chicks Tale All, runner-up's in the first two trials, posted the third and fourth fastest times respectively. They are both Oklahoma-breds, by third-crop sire Wagon Tales and are trained by Jose Chavez.

For a complete list of qualifiers to the Mile High Derby, including times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.

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Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colorado, began its 32-day live race meet on August 11. Friday (Aug 13) 7-race race card will include two trials (Race 1 and 2) for the Lucille Rowe Derby for accredited Colorado-bred 3-year-olds. First post is noon (MDT).